Nelson, David Erik

Learn how to solder electronic components together and build your own devices.

Making music isn't about dropping big bucks in the guitar shop or endlessly fiddling with expensive software. It's about wringing good noise out of bits of wood and wire, crafting your own sound with plastic and steel. When you create your own instruments, creating your own sound comes naturally. Junkyard Jam Band is a step-by-step guide to making a full array of complete musical projects on the cheap, no previous carpentry or electronics experience required. Each build includes tips on how to coax the best sounds out of the instrument and encourages you to mod the project to fit your own style.

Learn how to solder electronic components together and build your own devices.

Examines the genocide and persecution of the Chilean people.

Discusses the different aspects and issues of teens and sex.

Collects twenty-seven essays that offer varying perspectives on issues related to racial profiling, debating if it exists, the profiling of Arab Muslims during the War on Terror, if it is generally justifiable, and its consequences.

Provides students and other readers with access to a wide diversity of opinions about online pornography stimulating these readers to do further research for group discussion and individual interest.

Collects twenty-three essays that provide varying perspectives on the Chernobyl disaster, discussing the development of the Soviet nuclear industry, secrecy, safety, response, radiation exposure, farming in contaminated zones, tourism, and other related topics, and including personal stories about the accident.